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SEMIFIELDS ARISING FROM IRREDUCIBLE SEMILINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2008
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A construction of finite semifield planes of order n using irreducible semilinear transformations on a finite vector space of size n is shown to produce fewer than different nondesarguesian planes.
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- Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 85 , Issue 3 , December 2008 , pp. 333 - 339
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- Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2009
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